On April 17, the news of Li Yun's anti-Song reached Kaifeng. On the 19th, Shi Shouxin and Gao Huaide's front army issued a quick launch. Zhao Kuangyin ordered: Don't order Li Yun to go down Taihang Mountains and march quickly to block the pass! Order Zhang Mei, the envoy of the Three Divisions, raised military rations. He promoted Huaizhou to the regiment, and appointed Ma Lingcong, the governor of Huaizhou as the regiment commander, to prevent the loss of Huaizhou again after the fall of Zezhou. On May 2, Murong Yanzhao and Wang Quanbin led the army to join Shi from the East Road. On the 3rd, he ordered Guo Jin to be the defensive envoy of Mingzhou and the inspector of Xishan to prevent the Northern Han Dynasty.

The Northern Han Emperor Liu Chengjun also went out of Taiyuan to fight this battle. But he, Li Yun and Zhao Kuangyin, this was a three-negative one. Liu Chengjun immediately thought of his old partner Liao, let him get together? But Li Yun refused, we don’t play mahjong this time and change to landlords. Three people are enough. At Taipingyi, when Li Yun saw Liu Chengjun’s “Northern Han Army”, I wonder if he was aware of his prospects for rebellion? There were only a few thousand people, and his charity was weak. But the emperors were all here, and no matter how few soldiers were, they were still the emperor, so they could not treat the village chief as a cadre. Li Yun reluctantly went to greet him. But this meeting made the alliance go to the brink of being a name.

First, Li Yun came up and expressed his loyalty to the Zhou Dynasty and the late emperor, and Liu Chengjun remained silent. Everyone knew what the relationship between the Later Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Han Dynasty, Guo Wei and Liu Chong was. Liu Chengjun was unhappy, but he was not easy to get angry. At the moment, he had to use this person, so he had to suppress his dissatisfaction and said some substantial words - I want to give my beloved 300 horses, a title of King Xiping, and: a living person.

Liu Chengjun sent a military supervisor called Lu Zan to Li Yun. No matter how you say that your Li family army is all the soldiers of my great Han, it is appropriate to send a military supervisor to take care of him in every possible way. At this point, Li Yun, the King of Xiping, wanted to slap himself. In the end, he could not bear it anymore and left his eldest son Li Shoujie to guard Luzhou. He led 30,000 troops and horses, brought 300 horses sent by Lu Zan and the Northern Han, and went south to Zezhou.

At this time, the Song Dynasty was not only in turmoil between the north and south, but also in the capital city there were undercurrents of rebellion. Zhao Kuangyin never expected that the danger would suddenly happen to him.

At that time, Zhao Kuangyin was sitting in the imperial chariot and slowly marched on the Daxi Bridge in Kaifeng City. A cold arrow suddenly shot over. The arrow was not shot, but the scene was chaotic. No one knew where the arrow was shot, and no one knew if there was a second arrow. At this time, Zhao Kuangyin slowly stood up in the imperial chariot, looked at the direction of the arrow and sneered, and suddenly pulled open his clothes and shouted, "Tell him to shoot, teach him to shoot." Although Zhao Kuangyin's body was not hurt at all, the emperor's psychology was severely hit. It seems that there are not only those who oppose him, but also beside him. What should we do? Should we continue to be generous and not care about it or immediately search the whole city and start a massacre? The emperor was silent for a long time, and sat down slowly, and thought nothing had happened.

But I think this incident should have led to Zhao Kuangyin's determination to personally conquer. There is no way, he will do his own business. Only the emperor will personally conquer the rebellion as quickly as possible! 960 was the busiest year for Song Taizu. He was not like Chai Rong who had to conquer every battle. In his 16 years of emperorship, he had to conquer three times in total. But in this year of 960, he had to conquer two rebellions from the north and south.

On May 19 of the first year of Jianlong (960), Wu Tingzuo was appointed as the leader of Tokyo, Zhao Guangyi was appointed as the inspector of the Danei Capital, and Han Lingkun led his troops to Heyang. On the 21st, he set out to Daliang City and embarked on the road to suppress the rebellion. Before leaving, he told Zhao Guangyi that "it is a way, I won, and it is up to me to say. If it is not good, Zhao Pu divided his troops to defend Heyang, and don't make a family matter." Carefully analyze why Zhao Pu is not someone else? Because Zhao Kuangyin himself was determined to fight Li Yun to the death, and he would die if he couldn't win! And he knew very well that his family was too young. Even the oldest Zhao Guangyi, who was 22 years old, could not take the lead. If it really came to that point, he had to rely on the 39-year-old Zhao Pu to support the crisis! In this way, Zhao Kuangyin went to the towering and steep Taihang Mountains regardless of everything!

On the 24th, the army came to Xingyang. Xiang Gong, the left-behind Luoyang, came to meet Zhao Kuangyin. "The emperor quickly crossed the river. When Li Yun's army did not gather and attacked him, he would succeed in one fell swoop." Zhao Pu also said, "Li Yun would definitely think that the country was newly built and the emperor would not fight in person. It would be like walking day and night to attack him unprepared, but he could defeat him in one battle." I couldn't help but think of Chai Rong's attack in the Northern Han Dynasty, and most of the ministers were dissuading him. When Zhao Kuangyin came, everyone said to go. Emperor, you will definitely win the battle. Zhao Pu may be loyal. As for Xiang Gong, did Wu Tingzuo, the two old ministers of the previous dynasty, want to try the martial arts of the new emperor, and see if the people who had sat on the throne had the courage to be the general before?

Shi Shouxin and Gao Huaide's imperial guards were not ruthless to Li Yun. On May 5, they first defeated Li Yun's vanguard in Changping, killed more than 3,000 enemies and pulled out his Grand Tour. On the 29th, they defeated 30,000 people who went south in Zezhou South. Lu Zan was killed. Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Yun fled into Zezhou City and refused to defend the city. We had no chance to see whether Dangui's gun was fast or not. This man was very quick and had already stole a vacant city and fled.

In this way, on June 1, outside Zezhou City, Zhao Kuangyin, who had crossed the Taihang Mountains, was welcomed by Zhao Kuangyin's personal expedition. Song Taizu did not say anything, and siege him day and night for more than 10 days but could not attack. Time began to be unfavorable to Zhao Kuangyin. The governors of all over the country, especially Li Chongjin from Yangzhou in the south, were staring at Zezhou City. Zhao Kuangyin's bargaining chips were pressing on Li Yun's place, and the rest of the places were empty. In other words, Li Yun was going to drag Zhao Kuangyin to hell together. The situation required that even if Song Taizu himself bite with his teeth, he would have to chew the Zezhou city wall immediately!

Ma Quanyi stood up and led a group of suicide squads to capture Zezhou City on June 13, "Arrows are like rain, flying arrows are penetrated, and Quanyi is leading the guards to follow him." After the situation of "arrows are like rain, and the emperor personally leads the guards to follow him." Song Taizu was greeted by Song Taizu. Li Yun declared his mortality with the Song Empire with his death! There is a special biography of "Biography of Zhou Sanchen", Li Yun, you repay Zhou Taizu's kindness for his death and practiced his brotherhood with Zhou Shizong. You are the second Zhou minister to die after Han Tong! General Li, who would rather eat Zhou grain than Song Lu, go all the way! On the road to the underworld, you should slow down and let the third person come down to accompany you immediately. Didn't you often say that there are your brothers in the imperial guards? This person is a member of the imperial guards, and the fate of Li Chongjin, who is thousands of miles away in Yangzhou, was also confirmed with the fire.

On May 17, the army headed north to attack Luzhou. On the 19th, Li Shoujie opened the city to surrender to the Song Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin pardoned him and also gave a Shanzhou regiment envoy. The Northern Han Emperor Liu Chengjun was waiting for the news of Li Yun's victory at Taiping Post, but the one who came was the city of Zezhou was broken. Li Yun**. He hurriedly retreated to Taiyuan, and secretly glad that "As a matter of fact, I heard Zhao Hua's beloved Qing's words, and his army did not suffer any losses. It's a pity that Lu Zan was killed and Wei Rong was captured in Zezhou."

On June 29, Song Taizu, after exempting the taxes of Zelu and two states this year, set off from Luzhou and returned to Kaifeng. On July 10, he rewarded the meritorious ministers first: Shi Shouxin added a prime minister and a vain position. Gao Huaide became the chief magistrate and became his own member of the Zhao family. The young princess who chased Zhao Kuangyin with a rolling pin married Gao Huaide after his ex-husband Mifude died. Such fierce beauty will be left to Gao Huaide to slowly get rid of kidney deficiency. Murong Yanzhao was appointed as the assistant minister, Wang Quanbin was appointed as the governor of An****, and Zhao Guangyi was appointed as the governor of Taining Army. Zhao Pu was promoted to the Minister of War and Deputy Privy Councilor. It seems that this is another happy situation.

Otherwise, Zhao Xingfeng, a Zhongshu Sheren who was climbing Taihang Mountain with Zhao Kuangyin that day, felt that the mountains were high and the road was far away, and the soldiers were fierce and dangerous, so it would be better not to go. So he pretended to fall off his horse and broke his leg and stayed in Huaizhou without leaving. When the army passed by triumph, Zhao Xingfeng wrote a certificate of award. He simply took the falsification to the end and wrote a letter saying that his leg injury had not healed, and asked him to stay at home on Baidu. Zhao Kuangyin was angry and immediately withdrew his official position.

There was another person who seemed to be separated from Li Yun for eight lifetimes, but he was killed by Li Yun's death. This person was Li Gu, an important official in the previous dynasty.

After Li Gu retired, his family was in Luoyang. Li Yun was about to occupy Luoyang as his base, so he secretly gave Li Gu 500,000 yuan. He hoped that this famous prime minister of the previous dynasty would come out of the mountain to take charge of the overall situation after he entered the city. Li Gu accepted the money. But then Li Yun rebelled and the emperor personally fought for the battle. Li Yun**. Li Gu couldn't help but sleep and eat. On July 17, he went with Li Yun on the road to Huangquan.

The unlucky Wei Rong became Li Yun's funeral object with the honor of the prime minister of the Northern Han Dynasty. On this day, Zhao Kuangyin personally interrogated Wei Rong, "You teach Liu Chengjun to help Li Yun rebel, why is it?" Wei Rong was not afraid of "The dog barking is not his master. I really can't bear to let the Liu family down. Even if Your Majesty does not kill me, I will not be used by Your Majesty." Zhao Kuangyin was furious and hit his head with iron tart, with blood flowing over his face. Wei Rong shouted, "I'm going to die." Zhao Kuangyin suddenly realized that "This is a loyal minister." He applied medicine to Wei Rong to treat his injuries, and wrote to Liu Chengjun, wanting to exchange Wei Rong for Zhou Guangxun. But the Northern Han did not respond, and maybe Zhou had been killed. In the end, Zhao Kuangyin left Wei Rong and appointed him as the Minister of the Taifu.

At the end of July, Zhao Kuangyin began to reform the imperial guards and enacted a new garrison law. Gradually, the military system with the characteristics of Zhao and Song dynasties was realized.
Chapter completed!